The website is fixated on the word “quality”. And like LeBron and the Miami Heat, Simmons and Co. have had to endure heavy criticism of the site’s self-declared greatness.

In its first 30 days, Grantland has been a neither all-good or all-bad. It’s published pieces that justify the hype, but it’s also published pieces that completely lack a reason to exist.

We’ve compiled ten pieces that exemplify the best and worst of the site’s first month. The “best” are largely innovative, well-written, and purposeful. While the “bad” are largely self-indulgent, well-written, and pointless.